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Vintage Photograph - Silhouette Portrait

Circa 1950

Silver gelatin photograph of a close up superimposed portraits by photographer Layet, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pl...

Vintage French silver gelatin photo of the Promenade des Anglais on the French Riviera featuring Hotel Ruhl in Nice, France by Monte Carlo photographer Joseph Consavela, circa 1930. Original vintage...

Vintage French silver gelatin photograph of a large procession trailing up Le Chemin des Croix by Monte Carlo photographer Joseph Consavela, circa 1930. Original vintage artwork...

Vintage French silver gelatin photograph of two women shoppers crossing paths at the entrance to the farmers market of Beausoleil on the French Côte d'Azur by Monte Carlo photographe...

Vintage French silver gelatin photograph of a docked boat reflecting on the smooth surface of the water by Monte Carlo photographer Joseph C...

Original pencil signed silver gelatin photograph of a workman among building debris by Shirley Carter Burden, 1953. Signed " S.C. Burden" in pencil lower right. From a personal por...

"Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" a Lithobrome photograh by Sigismund Blumann (American, 1872-1956). Signed "Sigismund Blumann" lower right. Titled "Sidewalk Club of the Motherlode" on verso. Image size, 11.25"H x 13.25"W. Between 1923 and 1932, his pictures were accepted at photographic salons in Amsterdam, Toronto, Rochester, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1927, a one-person exhibition of his bromoil prints traveled to camera clubs in Chicago, Akron, Cincinnati, and New York. In addition to bromoil, a process that yields pointillistic images, Blumann utilized such unusual processes as kallitype (Vandyke brown), lithobrome, and pastelograph (the latter two probably his own inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented. Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two magazines — for over fifteen years — Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. In addition, he wrote five instructional books on photography...

A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. This Untitled, Silver Gelatin print on fiber base paper photograph, is a black and white portrait of Barbra Streisand...

Keith Haring was an American artist and activist known for his iconic paintings and street art. He began to attract widespread attention with his spontaneous subway drawings after mo...

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Illustrated in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, edited by Peggy Phelan and Richard Meyer. An iconic book celebrating Warhol's most famous photogr...